Ayotzinapa

The Special Follow-Up Mechanism for the Ayotzinapa Case (MESA, by its Spanish acronym) aims to monitor compliance with Precautionary Measure 409/14, issued on October 3, 2014, and with the recommendations that the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its Spanish acronym) has formulated in its two reports. MESA’s work is based on transparency, and it grants the families of the 43 missing persons a central role in its efforts. The IACHR created MESA on July 29, 2016, through Resolution 42/16. Commissioner Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, the IACHR’s Rapporteur for Mexico, and Commissioner Luis Ernesto Vargas are in charge of coordinating MESA.

The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its initials in Spanish) was created in November 2014 through an agreement between the IACHR, the Mexican State, and representatives of the disappeared students in Ayotzinapa. This agreement also established the main activities to be carried out by the GIEI: to draw up plans for searching for the disappeared persons alive; technical analysis of the lines of investigation to determine criminal liabilities; and technical analysis of the Plan for Integral Attention to the Victims (Plan de Atención Integral a las Víctimas) of the events of September 26 and 27, 2014.